I'm not sure if the confusion is on my part or yours. I didn't intent to 
imply all .dryml files are loaded, at least not in all locations. However, 
all .dryml files in taglibs/application are loaded or at least where in 1.3 
and 1.4 prior to the latest release. I was trying to say that 
it's inconstant that application.dryml, auto loaded 
taglibs/application/*dryml, or at least they got loaded right after 
application.dryml but admin_site.dryml and front_site.dryml didn't 
have similar behaviors.  If you goal is to reduce auto loading of files I'm 
all in favor of that.

I look forward to testing your latest release but it might not be until 
next week.

Bob

On Wednesday, April 18, 2012 10:23:42 AM UTC-4, Bryan Larsen wrote:
>
> On Tue, Apr 17, 2012 at 7:15 PM, Bob Sleys <[email protected]> wrote:
> > I've run across similar issues with 1.4 and think I've nailed down.  If 
> what
> > I'm going to describe next doesn't help then I guess disregard it LOL.
> >
> > The issue at least in my case came down to loading order.
> >
> > First core.dryml is loaded from the gems directly - no problems here
> >
> > Next application.dryml is loaded but it doesn't load the auto generated
> > rapid tags by default. However it does load all dryml files in
> > taglibs/application automatically.
> >
> > Next the sub site dryml file is loaded, typically either 
> front_site.dryml or
> > admin.dryml.  This is where the auto generated rapid dryml files are 
> loaded
> > at by default.
> >
> > The issue is if you try to extend any of the auto generated tags before 
> they
> > get loaded you'll get errors.  This is particularly confusing because 
> much
> > of the documentation states to place these tag extensions in
> > application.dryml but with 1.4 the auto tags haven't been loaded yet 
> leading
> > to errors.
>
> That's an excellent summary of the problem.   two corrections:
>
> - all dryml files are not loaded automatically.    You can make it do
> that by adding a <include src="*"/> statement, but I highly recommend
> against that!   However, something like <include src="common/*"/>
> would be useful in some apps.
>
> - it's admin_site.dryml, not admin.dryml
>
> This isn't a new problem, Hobo 1.3 has a similar problem.   The
> difference is that the default generated app is slightly different.
> Depending on the options you choose, front_site.dryml either doesn't
> exist, or application.dryml is blank.  It was easy to generate an app
> without front_site.dryml but with admin_site.dryml, which meant that
> the admin portion loaded both the generated files for the front site
> and for the admin site.
>
> There are three reasons why the generator changed in 1.4:
>
> - Hobo 1.4 allows subsites to have different themes
>
> - there is a new "install_plugin" generator
>
> - I wanted to eliminate the support situation where a new user may or
> may not have a front_site.dryml.
>
> And I wanted to change things in a way that broke 1.3 apps as little
> as possible.
>
> I think it's best to change DRYML so that it doesn't load
> application.dryml directly.   That means that people upgrading from
> 1.3 or 1.4.0.pre4 will have to add an <include src="application"/>
> line to front_site.dryml and admin_site.dryml, but I think the
> problems that you and others have run in to are serious enough to
> warrant the breakage.
>
> Do any of the old-timers have any problems with this breakage?
>
> Bryan
>
> >
> > The simplest fix is move your tags out of application.dryml and place 
> them
> > either in front_site.dryml or admin.dryml.
> >
> > It's also quite confusing that all dryml files in taglibs/application are
> > auto loaded at the same point as application.dryml but the auto generated
> > files aren't which by default will typically lead to errors.
> >
> > IMHO the auto loading of taglibs/application should be discontinued OR 
> when
> > front_site.dryml loads all dryml files under taglibs/front_site should 
> load
> > AND all files in taglibs/admin_site should load when admin.dryml loads. 
>  IE
> > when a subsite loads it should load all dryml files in
> > taglibs/<subsite>_site.
> >
> > Of course this can be achieved by adding an <include ...> into each
> > subsite.dryml file to mimic the auto loading.  (this is what I've done) I
> > then place tags into dryml files named after the model they are for in
> > the appropriate subsite_site dir so I can keep them organized. I really 
> do
> > hate haveing too much stuff in one file and this lets me keep my tags
> > organized.
>
> Yes, this is an excellent way of doing things.   If you take a look at
> the source code for RAPID in 1.4 you'll notice that we now have a
> large number of small files instead of a small number of large files,
> so we're moving in the same direction ourselves.
>
> Bryan
>
>

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